Health

Vision

Mission

Create an effective public health system in Gauteng by ensuring we have the right people,skills,systems and equipment to provide the care our patients need to live health,quality lives

Core functions

Provision of primary healtcare services through the district system by means of a network of provincial clinics and community health centres and district hospitals administered by doctors,nurses and other health prodessionals;

Provision of emergency Medical services and planned patient transport throughout the province;

Provision of specialisedin-patient care for psychiatric and infectious diseases, and some tuberculosis (TB) and chronic psychiatric services on an outsourced basis;

Provision of in-patient and out-patient academic healthcareservices through the central,tertiary hospitals and dental ospitals, in addition to the teaching that takesplace at other service levels;training of future health care professionalsin health sciences faculties and nursing colleges;and

These services are supported through human resource;developmentmanagement and support servicesuch as laundries,facilities management and cook-freeze; and through supplying medical and pharmaceutical materials

Programme budgets for 2017-18

A department's programmes are the activities that it spends money on during the financial year. Different programmes have different expenditure budgets, depending on their requirements and available finances. More detail on the programmes is available in the department's Estimates of Provincial Expenditure documents.

Planned compared to historical expenditure

Budgeted and actual expenditure/allocations for a department can increase or decrease from year to year. Changes in expenditure for a department can be because of changes in the activities of the department, because of changes in priorities between departments, because of cost efficiencies or because of increases in the price of goods and services due to inflation.

The chart shows the department’s actual expenditure for past years, and budgeted expenditure for the current year and the upcoming three years of the medium-term expenditure framework (MTEF). By adjusting these numbers to take inflation into account, it is possible to determine if a department’s expenditure is really increasing or decreasing in real terms, as compared to the rest of the economy.

Budgeted and actual expenditure comparison

Compare the adjusted appropriation to the main appropriation to see whether changes were made in the adjustments budget to the appropriations set out in the budget. The audited outcome shows what was actually spent.